when people from improving their situation in the world. they stop stories in the week's headlines here on our national the number of casualties from the ukrainian government's military crackdown in the east rose fueling unrest in several more cities in the region. while key for russia is to blame russia for the tragedy in a disaster of the southern ukrainian city mourns dozens of anti-government activists killed in a deadly inferno and clashes with radical extremists. tortured to death by the state an american prisoner suffers a slow painful execution as untested drugs are used for the lethal injection it's not a calls for a moratorium on capital punishment plus. we report from iraq where bloodshed and civilian deaths accompany the country's first

general election since u.s. combat troops moved out. four pm in moscow you're watching r t international with me or you know josh and we start in eastern ukraine where a military crackdown on anti-government activists has been gathering pace this week at least seven people are now confirmed dead in a day of fighting for control of the city of qom a tourist one of the hotbeds of and psyche of resistance violence has also erupted across other cities in the rest of the region are just policy or is there for us. dramatic developments here in southeastern ukraine where the news is unfolding fast and furious if we start with the town of qana tosk which is around seventeen kilometers from where i am in slavyansk their protest is all in control of the

central square but the rest of the town has now been taken over by the ukrainian army all the shops are closed and we know we receiving reports that some full factories have shut down this affects the employment of some sixty thousand people who are now without jobs donetsk region is a region where all public transport has been shut down what this means is that nobody can arrive here or you from here using either the buses or the trains this is a weekend operation that took place it started on friday here in slavyansk it's affected kramatorsk it is falling here is announcement that it will crack down militarily against these and of protesters many of whom have taken up administration buildings in this part of the country in the city of new gun square now receiving reports of a list protesters say that they are in control of the local military enlistment offices and that they're handing out weapons but in a very controlled and organized manner they said that they doing this to keep order

in the city overnight there was also an raced in the town of mario poll we were talking to people on the ground who said that the military had entered the town the empty key of protesters were inside the administration building and they were telling us that they were being given orders to evacuate the building or else the military was threatening that it would fire on them despite this there is media outlets who are reporting that there is no military operation in the city and that all of this on waste is instead merely being instigated by the protesters but we did speak to people on the ground and this is what they told us. i'm in the center of the city there are a lot of ambulances outside the local administration building gunfire is being heard armored vehicles have entered the city and are moving towards the center people are going in there is well to prevent the soldiers from shooting we're hoping they won't shoot at civilians though from what we've seen before we're not sure anymore. armed vehicles started entering the city then the fire erupted

mercenaries or the ukrainian national guard opened fire in a mean of people's heads there's no fatalities so far but i can't say anything about the number of injured right now police have returned from the scene but people in dark uniforms can be seen in other parts of the city kid has announced that this military operation is happening and starting here in the dinette squeege and but that it will then instigate similar operations in other regions here in ukraine so certainly the showdown for further violence and clashes is being created . artie's policy here is closely watching the situation in the region of dating you on all the latest via her twitter feed and in her latest post she describes the mood in advance after the advance of procreative forces follow her to keep up with events. in.

the authorities in kiev insists the military operation in east ukraine is aimed against what they call terrorists holding the civilian population hostage well here's how some of those civilians greeted the army's arrival. yes. i. was. sure. this was filmed in the town of from a tourist but similar sunni story taking place across the whole region and slowdowns for example locals were seen trying to stop military vehicles with their bare hands. of the east has been tense for a while now but a tragedy that took place in previously peaceful southern port of adesa sand shock waves worldwide dozens of anti-government activists there were burnt alive on friday as a mob of radical nationalists fire bombed the building they took refuge him marie

ivanovna sent us this report from a desk well you may find some of the images disturbing. the adesa massacre as some already called in it people were burned alive suffocated to death over shot and killed that has become one of the bloodiest pages in the city's history since world war two. the chain of events that led to dozens of deaths started with what has become includes new reality. clashes between police and the country's current trainers ordinary residents and members of the so-called self-defense units and supporters of the interim government in kenya including fulton choice and far life members. of the best that usually these clashes were peaceful sites managed the green without violence but the first start up for the violence and people lost their composure they were ready to go to the end. the end happened here in

addresses trade unions house the epicenter of trade tests by supporters of the plains federalization this is where the so-called my down accidents rushed to me they were destroying and burning the activist towns many rent to hide inside a building that was months to become a shelter that came only for dozens after they were set on fire tonight because i keep kosher fan camps and blocked off all their heads to the building at the same time if the motor cocktails along with stun grenades into the windows this was nothing short of an execution mission where people were burnt alive ukraine's a source she's for the first time since the crisis in the country started accused russia of being behind the violent events more were more and more we demand that russia stop using terrorism diversion and as a military threat as a way of putting pressure on our countries cause a little bit of it all to the russian president is dressing up his diversion squads

in uniforms which cannot be identified because he wants to destabilize our country best interests. not old residents agreed. was the routine the fuel cells from the fireplace and writers like to ellen and my damn self sometimes forces showed up to you will locals and are just so they didn't know anything about it they were all drinking and celebrating labor day it was all pre-planned and police who ordered not to interfere let us to obey god it was until the local police was trying to free them so i doubt there was evidence they were a zero zero zero zero zero they are very right i feel a joke trailer in that water here in that town i really friday's events that's claimed the lives of a least forty people have shaking this usually laid back seat in southern ukraine and many fear that it has made the gap between the people and authorities to be to

ever be breached while the pain will be too strong to overcome. from a desk. moscow could pay the price of care fails taken troll beast from ukraine ahead of the presidential election at the end of may washington and berlin salience rest as russia's fault and a warns their next round of sanctions well hurt is coming later in the program here in r.t. . i. a state execution went horribly wrong this week in the u.s. a prisoner spent almost an hour enduring a slow agonizing death after being given a lethal injection well the botched killing has put america's power to you back on trial and maids are supposed to die within six minutes after receiving the lethal

injection but that wasn't the case for clayton lockett he took forty three minutes to die gasping and writhing in pain before his heart finally collapsed now has been looking into this untested drugs now being used to kill the can down. america is among the top five nations that lead the world in executions but a recent lethal injection gone bad the typical execution should take between about six and twelve minutes took forty three minutes a van burst winds were close because something was going so wrong is casting a spotlight on the inhumane methods behind capital punishment in the u.s. the american public and the world is getting a close up and personal look at the death penalty as it really operates and what we're seeing is ugly on tuesday. ocket died a slow and painful death after his lethal injection was administered witnesses say he was withering for forty three minutes telling doctors something's wrong before

eventually suffering a massive heart attack lockett began rising from the gurney it's in there's. really tried to speak in like. the first two or inaudible but the third where you could clearly hear it work. and it's based on. part of it on record in his body shuttered because according to reports the three drugs used to kill lockett are not primarily intended as execution drugs and come with a host of warnings about suppressing the respiratory system and causing heart trouble in recent years drug makers mostly in europe have stopped selling their medications to u.s. prisons because they don't want their products being used to kill individuals as a result states have scrambled to find new suppliers and chemical recipes for executions in many cases officials refuse to disclose what struggles are being used

and where they're coming from when the states are refusing to provide this kind of information the tragic results that we saw in oklahoma are what we're going to get in january and ohio inmate took twenty five minutes to die by injection gasping repeatedly as he laid on the stretcher in oklahoma another prisoner complained of feeling his whole body burning after being lethally injected the injections by the way are being administered by prison officials not medical professionals and medical community doctors in particular are prohibited by their ethical oath from participating in executions in this way and one of the issues that's come up over and over again is whether the people who are actually administering the drugs and engaging the execution have the training and. and experience to do this in a way that is consistent with our constitution oklahoma has granted a to be called to all executions but in many other states critics say experiments

on death row inmates will carry on marino port naya r.t. new york now take a look at how capital punishment is administered across the united states it's allowed in thirty two states and usually the lethal injection or electrocution are used but other options include include our gas chamber a firing squad or even hanging but one of the biggest concerns for prison campaigners is that one in twenty five executed inmates could well have been innocent and they wonder if the word is to be more transparent about who and how they kill there's no question that bad things are happening or resulting from the use of these new and largely untested drugs that the government is not providing information on where they got them or in some cases what the drugs are the state proportions that it is executing people on behalf of the public to keep the public safe as part of the the public criminal justice system and so on if that's the case

then the public has a right to know what is going on during that process so what drugs they're using and what the effects of the dish drugs are and where those drugs came from the notion that our government can execute people basically in secret using drugs that they're not disclosing where they got them from or what the drugs are is a great immoral issue. now pre-election violence in iraq and a look at why washington has bones to pick with r.t. that more after the break. i wonder if we still if you still buy. her trailer assad has to grow slack. because i don't believe by any means that bashar assad it is kind of the same cloth this is there was a totally powerful engine troll leader in fact you may not be fully in

charge. economic rent. for. peace now and. what if the public. like. welcome back watching r.t. international now the ballot counting is underway in iraq after this week's

parliamentary election was initial results showing no parties securing elite well the vote didn't pass peacefully at least one hundred fifty people were killed as extremist groups carried out a series of nationwide bombings looks at whether this poll could in any way herald a peaceful new chapter for iraq. it's an election best described by the numbers. more than one thousand candidates are vying for over three hundred seats in parliament which will then let's the next president and prime minister some twenty one million iraqis are just there to vote in the first national election since they looked all of us troops three years ago. but there are other figures to consider the growing number of iraqis killed in escalating violence and those displaced by war no single political bloc is likely to win a majority although prime minister nouri al maliki's state of law lines is expected to lead he's seeking a third term but it's hard to label the past few years

a success has a country was sixteen percent unemployment widespread accusations of political corruption and crumbling public services but the real concern catastrophic levels of violence that got worse in of on up to the vote campaign rallies targeted by suicide bombers both sunni and shia militias have been out for blood. voting has been canceled in parts of western iraq becoming the u.s. led invasion brought shiite majority rule to the country which had turned the anbar province into a focal point of sunni discontent when i was in full damage at this time last year the province was in the midst of a political uprising if the demonstrators had been demanding the release of sunni prisoners they one of an end to what they saw as political marginalization of their sect these days it's a no go area. al qaeda linked group seize control of key cities provoking fierce

clashes with iraqi troops the government hasn't been able to restore order and atrocities committed by both molecules forces and the militants displaced a third of the population more than four hundred thousand civilians are now refugees within their own country it's hard to see a new path forward under the same government yet the opposition is too for. proctored to mount a serious challenge and regardless of who wins the vote is just the start of a long process it took months to agree on a coalition after the last election the same as expected this time around which means that iraq will have to wait even longer for the change that so desperately needs to see catherine of r.t. . while around two hundred people are killed in iraq and every week as a result of sectarian violence since the beginning of the year four thousand people have lost their lives in the violence and that's after the gram tell you of twenty third team considered to be the deadliest year for five years almost ten thousand were killed well iraq war veteran peace activist michael prisoner says the killings

are legacy of the u.s. military campaign and iraq if iraq had gone through this transition to a perfect piece for the united government they would still be faced with a very very difficult legacy the complete destruction of the country's infrastructure the toxic legacy of the pleated uranium and things like that but a rat cannot even begin to face those problems because their lives are still dominated by the violence of the war and the sectarian violence and all the strafe we see today is a direct result of the u.s. occupation if the u.s. military didn't go to war against an enemy army the us military went to war against a broad based national uprising against an occupation and so to fight it how does one exploit all of the ethnic and religious divisions they could find few of them with violence and today we're seeing the aftermath of. now the u.k. police get a slap on the wrist for regularly brushing criminal cases under the carpet

a recent survey suggests as many as one in five crimes of britain go unrecorded and all the details of this investigation are just click away. and use the us brads its influence further across the pacific striking a deal for access to military bases in the philippines find out why. washington stands firm that it's moscow which is stirring be under-estimated ukraine the white house even used these photos of people it claimed were russian agents even after the pictures were debunked moscow is also being accused of manipulating data and propaganda as a guy image to count finds out the claims are a little dubious. secretary kerry keeps bringing up photographs which he says confirm the presence of russian operatives on the ground the state department saw the man the same bearded man now in ukraine and in georgia back in two thousand and

eight and without any doubt came to the conclusion that it's moscow's hand they pointed at the bearded man in a group photo and claimed it was taken in russia among russian soldiers then the photographer of that very shot came out and said he in fact had taken the photo in eastern ukraine not russia washington said oops small error but the other ones a real deal anyway john kerry because our team of making false claims when fact checking is not exactly his department strong suit under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs which are stengel sort of followed up on secretary kerry's attack on our team last week where he called us propaganda bullhorn this is the angle is accusing r.t. of making false claims and he gives examples he writes consider the way our team manipulated a leaked a telephone call involving former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko through selective editing the network made it appear that tymoshenko advocated violence against russia or the constant reference to any ukrainian opposed to

a russian takeover of the country as a terrorist or the unquestioning repetition of the ludicrous assertion last week that the united states has invested five billion dollars in regime change in ukraine these are not facts and they are not opinions they are false claims well first of all and yulia tymoshenko leaked a conversation mr stengel accuses r.t. of making it appear quote unquote appear that mr washington educated violence against russia you don't have to edit or manipulate anything when the person actually says that. you have used if you choose to free you and you have to be movie. you have to most of the group at the very senior fellow said there's a vision of a pool in the case of five billion dollars invested in ukraine mrs tangled. it sound as if our t. pulled out a mound out of thin air there is this system secretary of state for european and your asian affairs big tour in a one page invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other

goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic train and the assertion that our two refers to any ukrainian opposed to russia's actions as a terrorist this is simply not true here is just one example of the choice of words that our reporters make on the ground when covering the events there let me. take a straight. street. in ukraine. it seems as if the scene is being seen as a confrontation. and that confrontation came when they met about two thousand pro unity protesters among them members of radical movements and in our coverage will continue to challenge everything the u.s. says about ukraine because if you only listen to what the u.s. state department says you would have the most distorted understanding of what's going on there in washington i'm going to check out our team while russia's foreign minister said western media outlets are crying propaganda over our coverage because

of competition and a former u.s. ambassador to russia referred on his twitter feed to our tease growth as something to be scared about citing this graphic it shows how well various news outlets are doing on the you tube and r.t. to washington his despair his topping the charts well amid all the accusations over ukraine the u.s. and the e.u. are expanding sanctions against russia this week washington targeted seventeen russian companies and their owners all linked to president putin according to the white house former speaker of the belgian parliament a lot of the news believes moscow could react to this time. i will certainly not deny that the sanctions have some economic impact but i would certainly not closer to size than those so it's limited and you should not forget that these sanctions basically serve the public relations purposes here in the west where to actually if

you consider the gravity of the situation they're still quite minor which is not to say that they are politically soon will it be very intense and yes at one point russia will have to will have to respond to the. well german chancellor merkel has backed the idea of more sanctions from moscow despite the country's business leaders urging her not to follow washington's lead their point is that the us doesn't have much to lose its trade with russia reached only twenty seven billion dollars last year while a figure for europe is four hundred and ten billion according to government and business consultant chris of her soul and a further restrictions will hurt all sides. nobody in the game can afford any of these sanctions they will hurt both germany for example is the biggest part of russia and russia is the biggest part of old europe so what's the use of any

sanctions that is washington's idea and the europeans not very much for that and that means that there is a discord no disagreement between the u.s. and the european union even if they come up with the same kind of sanctions right now. and how far is the west ready to go for more on the odds of broader economic sanctions being imposed go to r.t. dot com. a court in cairo sentence one hundred two supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi to ten years in jail they were accused of inciting violence and rioting following the military coup last july the ruling comes as part of a massive crackdown against the opposition launched by the military support the government ahead of this month's presidential election well our earlier this week nearly seven hundred people mannie from the problem or see muslim brotherhood were

given preliminary death sentences if the final verdict confirms that ruling it would herald one of the world's biggest executions of recent decades more than the number can dam to death in iran during an entire year and among the countries heading the list of state handing out capital punishment are iraq saudi arabia and the united states china doesn't publish official numbers but amnesty international says beijing executes thousands of people each here as for the mass and sing handed out in egypt political activist ahmed the camp says it's unlikely to quell the unrest. it's easy for the preliminary sentence to be so harsh because it politically serves as an intimidation tactic by the state towards the muslim brotherhood now this definitely has not deterred the muslim brotherhood from continuing their protests would become egypt's next president would be faced with an a virtually impossible economic situation the political continues political unrest

economy will continue to suffer a major blows and the president cannot deliver it cannot make services due to a society which inevitably will continue this cycle of underestimate violence now wait us round in fighting between rebels and eastern syria has killed sixty two that's according to a u.k. based watchdog sixty thousand civilians have reportedly fled the war ravaged area moderate rebels and islamic insurgents there have been fighting each other for months after capturing the region government troops it's estimated one hundred fifty thousand people have died in three years of civil war in syria and there's been another deadly gun rampages last work two people including a thirteen year old girl have been shot dead in a house in arkansas two boys at the same residents were also critically injured the gunmen a later faily shot another person before killing himself in a car earlier this week six people were injured in atlanta after

a delivery company employee opened fire on six of his colleagues. explosions in the kenyan city of abbas i have killed three people and injured seven one of the blast was a grenade attack on a bus stop while a second device went off near a hotel entrance their group has claimed responsibility for the attack though the country has been targeted by islamist militants since it sent troops to somalia in twenty eleven. in may two thousand and four but undertook its biggest single enlargement absorbing a vast area of the continent's east the going since though has been tough for the staring recession and unemployment all playing their parts so was it worth it or just likes airships he reports and what the people think. wild parties rocked ten european capitals in may the first two thousand and four as the e.u. became larger by ten countries for some of the new members like cyprus and malta

this move had a purely economic motivations while for the rest mostly former socialist states this was the chance to make a clean break from the communist past now a decade on these countries are looking at whether the e.u. accession really brought them joy poland is probably one of the happiest members of the e.u. to join in two thousand and four new road striking export figures and relatively intact from recession mainly because analysts say war so kept its currency instead of euro and even the clear downside from e.u. membership the population after millions of skilled balls left to western europe once borders became obsolete is not a deterrent still more than sixty seven percent of poles are happy to be part of the union the situation is slightly different in the czech republic latest polls suggest that thirty seven percent are not in favor of being part of the e.u. family way thirty five percent supporting it the rest are undecided this may be down to the czechs feeling better living standards have not come as fast as they

wanted them to come and sometimes they also made their feelings known during the protests when washington was planning to place an anti-missile shield on their territory in opinion you can often hear in the czech republic is that they do not like brussels bureaucracy and being told what to do over the past five years hungary has been one of the most vocal critics of the european union particularly its freshly reelected prime minister viktor orban there have even been suggestions voiced in budapest hungary could hold a referendum on exiting the union the reasons for such skepticism like within the economy that was in two thousand and four the cheap goods flooded the market traditionally an agricultural powerhouse and many farmers lost their markets and means to survive. that happen is that their country being forced to pay for the economic. rubbles of the e.u. member states speaking of which one of the ten newcomers to the e.u. in two thousand and four cyprus is probably the least happy these are quite telling

pictures from last year when the island suffered economic collapse and tens of thousands protested against the bailout plan which almost completely crippled the country's banking system a year on the island's economy is slowly recovering but the anger of losing a lot more money has not subsided among cypriots the two thousand and four accepted e.u. members are split about their decade within the family of twenty eight states not all of them have perfect ties with brussels but ten years after the e.u. accepted stand new states in one swipe it's now a lot more careful when it comes to enlargement. well get up to speed on the week's big business snacks with katie held him here nineteen.

the american humanist association is really riled up over that one very famous chunk of the pledge of allegiance that was added to fight the communists in the cold war that says that america is one nation under god they claim that the inclusion of god in the pledge makes it seem like atheists in america are second class patriots and contributes to atheist prejudices well this really depends on how you see the united states is it some sort of neutral ground where anyone with any beliefs can go i mean a lot of people did immigrate to the usa for religious freedom so in this case the word god needs to go or is the states unique culture that needs to be assimilated into and their culture is ultimately present christian in which case the lord almighty must stay in the pledge i doubt that this philosophical argument about the nature of the united states will be solved any time soon although it would be really great if it was but if we think about it the u.s. is a country of rugged individuals so can't patriotism be a bit individualistic yeah they may make you say the pledge of allegiance in school every day but you don't have to say the part about god if you don't want to well

that might not save you from pressure from a religious school mates but it will keep your conscience clean before the eyes of god or not god whichever you prefer but that's just my opinion. of the middle east peace this awful news is proud of this tremendous challenge to the peaceful dots and to chop the best. so first up this way you cannot minister things. the peace process with. the bible. to go as a teacher of a pleasure said to him as you can see. me with. these religious thing.

hello welcome to read the capital with me casey this week germany japan teamed up with the u.s. state of the sanctions against russia on allies this new partnership on the economic implications of poles they are about signed on to seventy billion dollars logie craig was according to the latest estimate should china is set to become the biggest economy in the world later this year portugal gets to break free from international financial support and to take this first we will support resolve coming out to vote for us and germany japan and now threatening the citations against russia german chancellor angela merkel and his prime minister shinzo abi

were together in berlin this week declaring industrial powers would unite together on their approach to sanctions this follows president obama's visit to japan where he reaffirmed his support for its rao audience with china meanwhile moscow house arrest and to retaliate against foreign energy companies if sanctions are heightened but if the german and japanese leaders all chill on between punishing russia up for what they see as the a low for addicts of karma on the protection of their economies especially and supplies from russia so first of all let's get to the f. he said to all of it all going to go to where our correspondent peter all of us is waiting for us so peter tell me you obviously we can see that what is the feeling there amongst the the business community in particular. well the business community of given anglo-american a clear message and that message is no further sanctions we've heard in the past

week from some of the real heavyweights in the german corporate world the likes of be a s.f. the chemicals giant siemens the engineering organization forks wagon. bank now they've all their concerns over potentially increased sanctions both privately as well as publicly now they all view russia as a very important market to expand their business in some of these organizations where they've they've put decades worth of ground work in to try and establish these links with russia and they don't want to see them destroyed by further sanctions now to put into picture just how involved germany is. in russia six thousand two hundred german companies are currently operational that includes in russia operational in russia that includes that big household names that i mentioned as well as some smaller family run organizations that make things like machine tools tens of thousands of jobs could be at risk if the relationship

between russia and germany economically was affected by sanctions and if there was to be say a catastrophic breakdown and not a relationship three hundred thousand german jobs are completely reliant on trade with russia and well the german economy has come out of the financial crisis as the main powerhouse in europe but if there was to be some kind of catastrophic breakdown in relations could see around two percent knocked off german growth next year and that could put the german economy on the cusp of a potential. potential recession so these are all very important things to be looked at and these are the messages that have been given a miracle before she can try to make any decision of whether germany would back further sanctions against russia big corporations that lost to lose lots of jobs at stake. thankee think keeping us up to date. speaking to us from today. we're not going to get over to london and join brenda kelly from i g to see what the

international markets make of all this we know that the relationship between germany and russia is very tight in terms of trade when it rained in on japan for now because interestingly enough she didn't see a as i say he was in germany but he's been very popular because of what he's done to the japanese economy he's pulled it back from two decades of deflation i would imagine the business community in japan as well might be quaking in their boots just now when they hear the word sanctions. i want to think once again for. a lot of the sanctions that are being a visa rather than any real economic i can only. ones i do know in some respects there is a very fine line that is a difficult task of striking a balance between standing by the u.s. which is obviously its main military ally and maintaining a good relationship with russia where in fact it was

a huge amount of resources and it also wants to build relations with russia to ties with other neighboring countries like china and south korea have been strained before now as i said i think much of the sanctions from japan have been largely symbolic of course given how tense of the economic recovery there obvious facing he was not necessarily want to push things too far particularly since i think there's history there between russia and japan in terms of territorial issues there since nine hundred forty five or thereabouts so this is something about this they would need to sign a treaty over so there's a lot of history there but he probably won't want to force that too much on what do you make of the i.m.f. loan that's been offered to ukraine now is to finalize the seventeen billion dollars designed in. confidence about. well where you are really very much living in a fairly low sort of world over the last few years and of course our promise of

a bailout loan is just that and we haven't actually seen any pressing of a book where it's actually landed in some account for ukraine just yet but it does seem like the i.m.f. are being quite supportive of ukraine because of course there is a lot of upheaval enough particular country always into this time since of course the annexation of crimea so i feel you know from a financial point of view this is pretty positive but i'm not so sure that just a bailout is going to be the be all and end all to what's actually going on in eastern europe. as well and of course it's a risk for the i.m.f. as well because it is such a to most to us a country at the moment so brenda kelly thank you for your time really appreciate about talking to us from the city of london id that now talking of ukraine let's just have an update on ukraine's finances and so as we were saying the international monetary fund we're alone in ukraine seventeen billion dollars now three point two billion dollars of that money will be dispersed immediately the

rest will be handed out over the next two years while the money will be used to keep afloat as it continues to battle the escalating debts including gas bills to russia but i met chief christina guards she acknowledged the program does pose a risk for the fund itself citing geopolitical tension and potential difficulty for kiev to follow through on those conditions were certainly be watching the situation now talking of i.m.f. loans portugal is set to follow island an exit is three year deal it was seventy eight billion euro they want to exit the bailout this month now the troika of international lenders which does include the i.m.f. of course as well as the european commission and the european central bank have advised sports school to stay with the loan program until the economy is more stable but portugal's government is confident after some success will bond auctions that the country can finance itself from now on. according to the latest estimation

by the world bank china is now predicted to overtake the u.s. and become the world's biggest economy this year the u.s. has held this position since eighteen seventy two now since the two thousand and eight financial crisis the chinese economy has made up a quarter of total global growth is a cool while according to the financial times the chinese economy may already be twenty percent larger than the official figures which means the country is already the largest however when these figures are presented on a per capita basis the outcome is very different the united states emerges in twelve position and china comes in a ninety ninth place now the world bank figure shows that council is in the let's hope spot. now this corporate news which is about some of the stories that appalled

my eye in russia this week. russia's biggest zinc plant like case in chile have been supported a loss of almost six million dollars in twenty minutes says the meteorite is partly to blame because of how this works than a company's one point five million dollars on damage caused by the space rock we've got on six hundred employees at the car giant ford plant in the leningrad region have agreed to leave the company employees were offered severance pay of up to five months pay which is actually about five a half thousand dollars each production has been stalled for the past several weeks due to falling cells and a weakening of the ruble. and russian coal miner chal has reportedly holds that mining at its u.s. coal business least a week price is all the problem of the mine is halted production until market conditions improve the value of coking coal is at its lowest in eight. yes.

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rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. war is probably the most complex and difficult human activity. on. the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. just kill a bunch of people you don't know if you want their relatives there or of us people . reading. this some of the shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it because it was night times four in the morning even the best commanders even the best soldiers. are going to

make mistakes does this whole idea of brotherhood and author. and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context that has absolutely no place. good afternoon prep news is back online today we take on another life one of the most intractable divisive ongoing violent divides to happen you know it's time to get conflict going on but which is when published on one state to state or no straight solution to this protracted fight from camp david to majority targets also to kids back in time all peace talks have developed into biden route to piece of lead nowhere but more war until now what comes of the us middle east peace process

this afternoon news is proud of this tremendous chance to produce the peace building the best would not start to stop this what you might miss just pinch me netanyahu should all be ready to engage the peace process with clive i mean rule right all right well we'd like to bring the whole stories about please begin by telling us israel psychologists would rise the people who have suffered for tragedies centuries of persecution diaspora we were sold a massacre sure to try to have a white dog not but it doesn't suit us a fall but a place to gobble up some told us it was you do to others go to good to be single yourselves like thanks to this new king but all of the people hoped it would seize like that which the lord has just been really cleared the blood of the jewish state you will have indeed suffered massively unimaginably and should have centuries not just in the middle east but to be how it is in the holy land holy also to christians and muslims how can you claim that only jews own the land included with

the six days we fulfilled outsiders took it to good use of the west bank good in gaza going to be occupied clear for jordan the seventh to come when all the world species witness is bridgeable they condemned it but it seems the un issued resolution two forty two calling on israel to give back those territories and george bush says they are you for. the legitimacy of the jewish state i'm just trying to produce about what what books geysers notes are ok ok just relax to hey we've got to ask the bride we now crossed over to gaza to check the box of the palestinians should represent the love that you can see. only within the ninety six boat of this movie you'll recognize israel and sing for your. cool. now it looks more like. mr netanyahu you killed him but it was

in self-defense no it was just too close to show the news coverage for us. brian what's your next assembly of tonight's headlines plus the strategy a good place for politics from a terrorist israel retaliates with strikes it's self-defense while in the west bank palestinian suicide homes are wrapping themselves into peaceful israeli bulldozers this well is under threat which is why it's shown in this map its settlements hope studly expanded can we end this injustice to explain we welcome john kerry secretary of state great to be back but can't indulge your stress a bit american taxpayers have got israel covered too long because it has no country just for us foreign aid six which is one hundred forty billion dollars since the seventy's plus military weaponry no conditional strings with no conditions at all really preferred better if they could come using our money to build new to go sit in the winter so you can smoke no i was just to sit in the bush because if you search for it. we're getting

a call from some jewish guy in brooklyn he's all plugged with all that american troops he's prone to be posing as you just heard him speak so low. just your own scream this is norman finkelstein bring him to state the truth this case issue is a lunatic state it's no excuse to steal palestinian because jews suffragette the sorry to lose her innocent take the. everybody this guy's an astronaut's showed up baby i know you also can do american policy of funding to the palestinian territories ok fungal studies we get the gist of all this so we're focusing would climb the straight low cut back because by the pixie slipped away that started the legs were ok because to have israel's back that's true you're deluding dishnet the muslim backwoods that shares that you'd better give this a good look my pretty good test loads to post this to receive his foreign policy obviously both the israeli occupied territories the people who were both the

colonists and the most of the time keep your eyes on the streets and scarlett johansson and my real job is promoting illegal occupations it's easy to start by taking other people's land in the sense that there's push the kids out of their homes causing placek and look set to scream at you for israel and all of the flow. scojo looks delicious and let's keep reminding you about the long haul solo redskin genocide or flavor of the american a shitload of good strong. sun israel is a settler colony like canada america. is in the area to sail past the best canucks to get. a measure of what still a bit of celebrating the day of the whales but you'll miss me it's roughly

translates to a stride and let the sun back on bob's legs beasts when so little by the end of may not so much look ever leave the palestinians make it stay hot and. celebrate this wonderful. place the smiling faces the. just like i wanted to know people in beijing and i was gassed up from the moment like. the bombing of. the club. and we sing live independent. of a party with us next but does not get into semantics but for. the moment the struggle to calculate explain if you. like that. tragedy how can we help. him become something.

more. serious well you. know that's. not. what. it seems that despite the use of we fail to see the real peace deal between israel and palestine nevertheless i hope we've expanded our minds underprepared to shed some final thoughts before we go back to the not this might seem like some battle and whining of the people in another time but it. is challenge to live side by side to raise flags on which invisible man we pray to in the sky and that is why they'll be peace nowhere until this peace in palestine is over if we want to live there was pressure from outside that ended the crimes of the pa to turn terrorists into winners of the peace prize the question is can we learn history's lessons and apply them in our time when we finalize our direction it's clear with his life his state

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today's top stories and the week's headlines here in r.t. but over of casualties from the ukrainian government's military crackdown in the east grows fueling unrest in several more cities in the region. russia is to blame russia for the tragedy in a desa at the southern ukraine and city warns dozens of anti-government activists killed in a deadly inferno and clashes with radical extremists. tortured to death by the state an american prisoner suffers a slow painful execution as untested drugs are used for the lethal injection it's really not a calls for a moratorium on capital punishment. the report from iraq where bloodshed and civilian deaths blight the country's first general election since u.s.

combat troops moved out a poll that shows no clear winner yet. five pm last you're watching international with me marina joshing well we start in eastern ukraine where a military crackdown on anti-government activists has been gathering pace this week at least seven people are now confirmed dead in a day of fighting for control of the city of kramatorsk one of the hotbeds of and to keep residents violence is also ruptured across other cities in the rest of region or is there for us. dramatic developments here in southeastern ukraine where the news is unfolding fost and furious if we start with the town of qana tosk which is around seventeen kilometers from where i am in slavyansk they potest is all in control of the central square but the rest of the town has now been taken over by

the ukrainian army all the shops are closed and we know we receiving reports that some full factories have been shut down this affects the employment of some sixty thousand people who are now without jobs donetsk region is a region where all public transport has been shut down what this means is that nobody can arrive here only from here using either the buses or the trains this is a weekend operation that took place it started on friday here in slavyansk it's affected kramatorsk it is fighting here is announcement that it will crack down militarily against these and of protesters many of whom have taken up administration buildings in this part of the country in the city of new gun square now receiving reports of on the wrist protesters say that they are in control of the local military enlistment offices and that they're handing out weapons but in. manner they said that they doing this to keep order in the city overnight there was

also and waste in the town of my we oh poll we were talking to people on the ground who said that the military had entered the town the anti key of protesters were inside the administration building and they were telling us that they were being given orders to evacuate the building or else the military was threatening that it would fire on them despite this there is media outlets who are reporting that there is no military operation in the city and that all of this on race doesn't state merely being instigated by the protesters but we did speak to people on the ground and this is what they told us. that i'm in the center of the city there are a lot of ambulances outside the local administration building gunfire is being heard armored vehicles have entered the city and are moving towards the center people are going in there is well to prevent the soldiers from shooting we're hoping they won't shoot at civilians though from what we've seen before we're not sure anymore if your armored vehicle started entering the city then the fire erupted mercenaries or the ukrainian national guard opened fire emunah people's

hands there's no fatalities so far but i can't say anything about the number of injured right now police have returned from the scene but people in dark uniforms can be seen in other parts of the city. kid has announced that his military operation is happening and starting here in the region but that it it will then instigate similar operations in other regions here in ukraine so certainly the showdown for further violence and clashes is being created. suppose the year is closely watching the situation in the region updating you on all the latest via her twitter feed and in her latest post she describes the mood in vignettes after the advance of forces follow her to keep up with events there. now the authorities in kiev and system military operation in east ukraine is aimed

against what they call terrorists holding the civilian population hostage well here's how some of those civilians greeted the army's arrival. there was this was filmed in the town of commons force but similar scenes are taking place across the whole region into the bounce for example locals were seen trying to stop military vehicles with their bare hands it's. now the east has been tense for a while now but a tragedy that took place in previously peaceful southern port of adesa sent shock waves worldwide dozens of anti-government activists there were burned alive on friday as a mob of radical nationalist fire bombed the building the two graph huge in recent often ascent is this report from a desk and you would find some of the images there are disturbing. the adesa massacre as some are already calling it people were burnt alive suffocated to death

over shot and killed has become one of the bloodiest pages in the city's history since world war two. the chain of events that led to dozens of das started with what has become including his new reality. clashes between police and the country's current trainers ordinary residents and members of the so-called self-defense units and supporters are intended to keep including financial interest and five members. of the bears that usually these clashes were peaceful sites managed the green without while it but the first start up for the violence and people lost their composure they were ready to go to the end of the end happened here in a distance trade unions house the epicenter of protests by supporters of the plains federalization this is where the so-called my down activists rushed to me they were

destroying and burning the activists talley's many rent to hide inside the building it was meant to become a shelter. only it doesn't have to building or set on fire i mean i like i keep telling the fan camps and blocked off all the access to the building at the same time if the motor cocktails along with stun grenades into the windows this was nothing short of an execution mission where people were burnt alive ukraine's a source she's for the first time since the crisis in the country started accused russia of being behind the violent events more were more and more we demand that russia stop using terrorism diversion and its military threat as a way of putting pressure on our countries cause i'm betting that the russian president is dressing up his diversion squads and uniforms which cannot be identified because he wants to destabilize our country but in a desk. not all the residents agreed. they brought in the fuel cells from

heart and right sector along with my damn self defense forces showed up to the locals in advance so didn't know anything about it they were all drinking and celebrating labor day it was all pre-planned and police were ordered not to interfere. you wish to obey god and until the local police. read them too i doubt there was evidence they were. that they are riding a fetal crate knowing that the waters here in that town are really friday's events that claimed the lives of at least forty people have shaking this usually only southern ukraine and many fear that has made the gap between the people and authorities to be to ever be breached while the pain will be too strong to overcome . from a desk. and the latest we are hearing from our correspondent is that people are

trying to storm the police headquarters were those who survived friday's fire are being held the number of people gathered outside the building is swelling despite having a range that will keep you updated on how events in a desktop develop. moscow could pay the price if give fails to take control of eastern ukraine to have a presidential election at the end of may or washington and berlin say the rest is russia's fault and warned their next round of sanctions will hurt that's later in the program here on r.t. . a state execution went horribly wrong this week in the u.s. a prisoner spent almost an hour enduring a slow agonizing death after being given a lethal injection well the botched killing has put america's death penalty back on

trial in mates are supposed to die within six minutes after receiving a lethal injection but that wasn't the case for clayton lockett he took forty three minutes to die gasping and writhing in pain before his hard finally collapsed as been looking into the untested drugs now being used to kill the can damned. america is among the top five nations that lead the world in executions but a recent lethal injection gone bad the typical execution should take between about six and twelve minutes forty three minutes of being burst winds were close because something was going so wrong is casting a spotlight on the inhumane methods behind capital punishment in the us the american public and the world is getting a close up and personal look at the death penalty as it really operates and what we're seeing is ugly on tuesday oklahoma inmate clinton lockett died a slow and painful death after his lethal injection was administered witnesses say

he was with the ring for forty three minutes telling doctors something's wrong before eventually suffering a massive heart attack lockett began rising from the gurney it's. tried to speak in like. the first two or inaudible but the third where you could clearly hear him get a work. permit and it's based on. part of it a record in your body shattered because according to reports the three drugs used to kill lockett are not primarily intended as execution drugs and come with a host of warnings about suppressing the respiratory system and causing heart trouble in recent years drug makers mostly in europe have stopped selling their medications to u.s. prisons because they don't want their products being used to kill individuals and as a result states have scrambled to find new suppliers and chemical recipes for executions

in many cases officials refuse to disclose what struggles are being used and where they're coming from when the states are refusing to provide this kind of information the tragic results that we saw in oklahoma are what we're going to get in january and ohio inmate took twenty five minutes to die by injection. gasping repeatedly as he laid on the structure in oklahoma another prisoner complained of feeling his whole body burning after being lethally injected the injections by the way are being administered by prison officials not medical professionals and medical community doctors in particular are prohibited by their ethical oath from participating in executions in this way and one of the issues that's come up over and over again is whether the people who are actually administering the drugs that engage in the execution have the training and and experience to do this in a way that is consistent with our constitution oklahoma has granted

a two we call to all executions but in many other states critics say experiments on death row inmates will carry on marina port naya r.t. new york now take a look at how capital punishment is administered across the united states well it's allowed in thirty two states usually the lethal injection or electrocution are used but other options included are gas chamber a firing squad or even hanging but one of the biggest concerns for prison campaigners is that one in twenty five executed inmates could well have been an innocent and they want the authorities to be more transparent about who and how they kill. there's no question that bad things are happening or resulting from the use of these new and largely untested drugs that the government is not providing information on where they got them or in some cases what the drugs are the state proportions that it is executing people on behalf of the public to keep the public

safe is part of the the public criminal justice system and so on if that's the case then the public has a right to know what is going on during that process so what drugs they're using and what the effects of the dish drugs are and where those drugs came from the notion that our government can execute people basically in secret using drugs that they're not disclosing where they got them from or what the drugs are is a great immoral issue preelection violence in iraq now look at why washington has bones to pick with r.t. that a more after the break. kirby

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go back to what your teacher national call the ballots counted is underway in iraq after this week's parliamentary election with initial results showing no party securing a lead the vote didn't pass peacefully at least one hundred fifty people were killed as extremist groups carried out a series of nationwide bombings looks at whether this poll could in any way herald a peaceful new chapter for iraq. lection best described by the numbers. more than nine thousand candidates are vying for over three hundred seats in parliament which will then elects the next president and prime minister some twenty one million iraqis are just there to vote in the first national election since the look to all of us troops three years ago. but there are other figures to consider the growing number of iraqis killed in escalating violence and those displaced by war are no single political bloc is likely to win

a majority although prime minister nouri al maliki's state of law lines is expected to lead he's seeking a third term but it's hard to label the past few years a success as a country was sixteen percent unemployment widespread accusations of political corruption and crumbling public services but the real concern catastrophic levels of violence that got worse in the run up to the vote campaign rallies targeted by suicide bombers both sunni and shia militias have been out for blood. voting has been canceled in parts of western iraq the u.s. led invasion brought shiite majority rule to the country which had turned the anbar province into a focal point of sunni discontent when i was in fallujah at this time last year the province was in the midst of a political uprising and. the demonstrators had been demanding the release of sunni prisoners they want of an end to what they saw as political marginalization of their sect these days it's

a no go area. al qaeda linked group seize control of key cities provoking fierce clashes with iraqi troops the government hasn't been able to restore order and atrocities committed by both molecules forces and the militants displaced a third of the population more than four hundred thousand civilians are now refugees within their own country it's hard to see a new path forward under the same government yet the opposition is to fracture. to mount a serious challenge and regardless of who wins the vote is just the start of a long process it took months to agree on a coalition after the last election the same is expected this time around which means that iraq will have to wait even longer for the change that so desperately needs from of r.t. . all the u.k. police get a slap on the wrist so for brushing a large number of criminal cases under the carpet a recent survey suggests as many as one of the five crimes britain go unrecorded all the details of this investigation are just

a click away. and the west spreads its influence further across the pacific striking a deal for access to military bases in the philippines find out why at r.t. dot com. washington stands firm that it's moscow which is stirring the unrest in east ukraine the white house even used these photos of people it claimed were russian agents even after the pictures were bonked moscow is also being accused of manipulating data and propaganda and it's going to find out the claims are a little dubious. secretary kerry keeps bringing up photographs which he says confirm the presence of russian operatives on the ground the state department saw the man the same bearded man now in ukraine and in georgia back in two thousand and eight and without any doubt came to the conclusion that it's moscow's hand they pointed at the bearded man in a group photo and claimed it was taken in russia among russian soldiers then the

photographer of that very shot came out and said he in fact had taken the photo in eastern ukraine not russia anyway john kerry accuses r.t.u. of making false claims when fact checking is not exactly his department strong suit under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs which are stengel sort of followed up on secretary kerry's attack on our team last week where he called us a propaganda bullhorn misses the angle is accusing r.t. of making false claims and he gives examples he writes consider the way our team manipulated the league to telephone call involving former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko selective editing the network made it appear that tymoshenko advocated violence against russia or the constant reference to any ukrainian opposed to a russian takeover of the country as a terrorist or the unquestioning repetition of the ludicrous assertion last week that the united states has invested five billion dollars in regime change in ukraine these are not facts and they are not opinions they are false claims well

first of all and yulia tymoshenko has leaked a conversation mr stengel accuses or to have made here here mr rushing into bed related violence against russia you don't have to edit or manipulate anything when the person actually says that. you have used if you choose to free you and you have to be movie if. you have the most of the group at that very senior fellow if there's a vision of a pool in the case of the five billion dollars invested in ukraine mr stengel makes it sound as if our team pulled that amount out of the plane air here's the. system secretary of state for european and you were there as victoria nuland paid invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic train and in our coverage will continue to challenge everything the u.s. says about ukraine because if you only listen to what the u.s. state department says you would have a most distorted understanding of what's going on there in washington i'm going to

check out our team now russia's foreign minister said western media outlets are crying propaganda over our coverage because of the competition it presents on twitter a former u.s. ambassador to russia referred to artie's growth as something to be scared about citing as graphic and now it shows how well various news outlets are doing on you tube and r.t. right here or as washington's despair is topping the charts well amid all the accusations over ukraine the u.s. and the e.u. are expanding sanctions against russia this week washington targets seventeen russian companies and their owners all went to president putin according to the white house former speaker of the belgian parliament a lot of unused believes moscow could react this time i will certainly not deny that these sanctions have some economic impact but i would certainly not to size

them to this so it's limited you should not forget that the sentence basically surf the bubble to nations but this here in the west we have to actually if you concede the gravity of the situation they're still quite mind which is not to say that they are politically soon will it be very important and yes one leaned last year will have to do with have to respond to the. german chancellor angela merkel has backed the idea of more sanctions from moscow despite the country's business leaders urging her not to follow washington's lead their point is that the us doesn't have much to lose its trade with russia reached only twenty seven billion dollars last year while the figure for europe is four hundred ten billion according to governments and business consultant christopher hoare still any further restrictions will hurt all sides nobody in the game can afford any of these

sanctions they will hurt both germany for example is the biggest part of russia and russia is the biggest part of old europe so what's the use of any sanctions that is washington's idea and the europeans not very much for that and that means that there is a discord no disagreement between the u.s. and the european union even if they come up with the same kind of sanctions right now. how far is the west ready to go for more on the odds of broader economic sanctions being imposed go to our t.v. dot com. and according cairo sentence one hundred two supporters of the ousted president morsi to ten years in jail they were accused of inciting violence and rioting following the military coup last july the ruling comes as part of a massive crackdown against the opposition launched by the military support a government had of this month's presidential election earlier this week nearly

seven hundred people many from the promoters the muslim brotherhood were given preliminary death sentences and if the final verdict confirms that ruling it would herald one of the world's biggest executions of recent decades more than the number can dam to death in iran during an entire year among the countries having the list of states handing out capital punishment are iraq saudi arabia and the united states while china doesn't publish official numbers but amnesty international says beijing executes thousands of people each year and as for the mass and singh had it out in egypt political activist ahmed to keep says it's unlikely to quell the unrest. it's easy for the preliminary sentence to be so harsh because it politically serves as an intimidation tactic by distaste towards the muslim brotherhood now this definitely has not deterred the muslim brotherhood from continuing their protests whomever would become egypt's next president will be

faced with a virtually impossible economic situation the political continues political under us economy will continue to suffer a major blogs and any president cannot deliver economic services to a society which inevitably will continue the cycle of under arrest and violence. and the latest round of infighting between rebels and eastern in syria has killed sixty two that's according to u.k. based watchdog sixty thousand civilians have reportedly fled the war ravaged area moderate rebels and islamic insurgents there have been fighting each other for months after capturing the region from government troops testimony to one hundred fifty thousand people have died in the three years of civil war in syria. now there has been another deadly gun rampage in the us were two people including a thirteen year old girl have been shot dead in a house in arkansas two boys of the same residence were also critically injured the gunmen later fatally shot another person before killing himself in

a car earlier this week six people were injured in atlanta after a delivery company employee opened fire on six of his colleagues. to explosions in the kenyan city of mumbai also have killed three people and injured seven one of the blast was a grenade attack on a bus stop while a second device went off near a hotel entrance no group has claimed responsibility for the attack though the country has been targeted by islamist militants since it sent troops to somalia in two thousand and eleven. and next on our team international good cop bad cop we explore the methods used by some american police and whether it really helps to reveal the truth. jeff or chapman from kansas is going on trial for murder but he is very afraid of

jury prejudice is because the jurors will of racists or have some sort of vested interest in seeing him get locked away you know it is because here's a jury tattoo on his neck of the word murder written backwards wiser and backwards . so he could read it in the mirror. nowadays we live in a total culture of almost complete entitlement so naturally chapman wants to leave jail on a special trip to a tattoo parlor to get the ugly ink changed or removed yeah because he did something stupid his appearance now it is the obligation of the government to help him fix the problem he created often on these opinion pieces i am very critical of the government but this time the man is totally right you can't just take everyone on special trips across town so they can look good for their trial it isn't the state's fault that he has the word murder on his neck the prosecutors even said that chapman that it would be ok if he covered it up with something like a stylish curve for dapper turtleneck sweater it is not the job of the government

to help you get rid of your very stupid and very incriminating debt too but that's just my opinion. the take. people are going to. get. the same thing everybody. know what. the law like to. say. this is. nothing. this. is not just

you still can still be just if you see the state aid to be with each other. the crime is that a viola manville a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along this dirt track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and all will be released including frank stirling seen in this photograph. two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty. a few years earlier his brother had been sentenced to prison for raping viola manning and franks is thought to have wanted revenge.

the police are relentless and pressed sterling until he cracks the eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the mudda his confession is recorded. many years later the murder of a four year old girl is arrested he confesses to the murder of viola manning and traces of his d.n.a. confirm the fact. frank sterling is released on the twenty eighth of april two thousand and ten after serving nineteen years now age fifty four frank has become frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings. april twenty eighth two thousand and ten the day i get released. that you're above it. remember freedom. for

frank sterling obtained his freedom largely due to the vigorous efforts of his lawyer donald thompson under the war where the question remains why did he ever confess to a crime he never committed. the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really in the course of interrogation why because there's been this said lightman no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse. yet in the case of frank stirling only his confession was filmed but the video speaks for itself the two policemen had applied the read method as well as some of their own making. here they offering coffee and donuts to prepare frank sterling for his final declaration of guilt. but what had gone on before.

i remember the back. shoulders. trying to be all buddy buddy and we're here for. a. lecture and all that. i did. you not listen to me. over an hour it's like ok i'll give you what you want well they had this weird interrogation technique in your case that i've never seen before since where there robin is feeding rubbing his back and having him lie on the floor put his feet up on the chair and whispering in his ear you know picture yourself out of the crime scene now picture the victim here she comes what do you do you know all this kind of really hypnotic kind of suggestion. the video of the confession is just the

acceptable face of what happened during the interrogation. to help frank admit to the crime he didn't commit one of the offices is rubbing his shoulder as the other is holding his. if you. were does you can. right. here and speak up. sort of like you're floating he said on the chair but you're going on as if you feel like you're sitting at a chair no weight any shoulders. no stars no way. to like an out of body. why you die someone will say this crime that you didn't do.

you know and so tired you know really like four hours sleep you know for three days and like. i just want to go on or sleep you know. yes i was very. prejudices your finals are difficult for you ok. if something happened with them. yesterday. one of. the ratio yes even when you're learning. something.

anything religion is difficult for. the regime leaders gives them. very. yes. this form of questioning shows how an innocent man can be made to confess with no recourse whatsoever to violence psychology has thus become a powerful weapon in the hands of the police and frank was one of its deliberate victims. to prevent any possible excesses has given rise to a new kind of specialist the lawyer expert. it's even inspired hollywood and its popular series lie to me. certainly the small psychologist helps resolve crimes by observing body language and facial expressions it may be human nature for the truth is written for all of us.

stand walters has been a lie expert for the past twenty five years. like to say i'm taking a little trip inside the swamp of their brain. in a morning around a swamp and i'm fighting a rotten stuff and trying to regen help for four of the people. who will to his crisscrosses the united states to spread the basics of good interrogation techniques to the police. his unique methods upset many of the theories online including those of his pee is. here in texas they did a study on interrogation training and they tested years officers ability to spot deception he says to training courses and they brought him back and test him again

what he found one hundred ninety officers never got better and improved after two courses they looked at the content the courses and found those courses were perpetuating the myths stem malta's campaigns against preconceptions and received ideas. very little body language has anything to with the steps in crossing arms what else. could get one of them has a hand up in hazing the other causing legs sitting on hands wrapping feet around a chair holding on a cross in a hose on the chair no correlation deception. and possibly stress but there is no difference whatsoever and when i contact liars make it a true killers and no connection. and now the myth of the myth of i move a little left logan right and i'm swimming against the tide and i've got academies that hate me for this and kids my. kids are doing

a disservice teaching again and again and again trained officers who thought they were great at spotting a lie before and worse as civilian population and had no training in deception which tells you what about training. to general. when a bag of his method is together a bundle of clues based on behavior and language which could indicate a suspect may be lying beyond any stress he may be feeling. as well known people such as bill clinton he is seen lying to the entire nation when he claims he never had sexual relations with white house intern monica lewinsky. i never told anybody to live there wasn't so much is deception here with president clinton other then there were some symptoms that told us he would be totally open one he refers to monica lewinsky is that one that's a very typical depersonalization its way of separating oneself and being above or

outside the realm or better than that the other one is his emotion and using his appearance payslips person is the hostility of anger then a split second when he turns to walk away watch with a smile and not a single time. these allegations are false and i need to go back to work. switch from anger to smile another is courtney love suspected of being a drug addict now ron nothing to do and that i'll know how or why god would ask a lot of questions that people think now my parent that out and out with courtney love you see shock when she's asked about their own question was a good stress marker to see her own version of body away get multiple answers if she has a good strong cause to be a vors was consistent was only being deceptive if you and later we know that she has had a long history of drug abuse from you on nothing now so

the first question is very general you know nothing today no and in barbara they ask. a more pointed question now you see you react no more heroin and so you know body jump wrong nothing today and that no. way to face expression the large eyes from a shock response of the question this one stones or so it is if i were the interviewer that means i would follow up on here on questions that's a simple me of of incriminating potential my god i'm going to ask you all the questions that people think now my hair and that and watch your body back. and away from barbara and multiple no answers. or. a notice we haven't really answered their own question you're back to prozac and should ask you very pointedly have you ever done drugs in front of your children

and watch the huge reaction again an apparent cluster behaviors of deception evident that it's a fan of a chap like caught out of class to make sure that i'm not looking for meth again body language is got a large margin of error so i'm looking at groupings and looking for it to be consistent so if i'm there when issue comes up to keep getting these powerful responses and i keep getting similar cluster behaviors of that damage stress or cause to behavior that we think are it and put some point consistent deception. on stem alters criticizes the most is the obsession the police have with obtaining a confession at the cost of the investigation this is what happened in the little town of camden in arkansas in early august two thousand and six when the body of eleven year old katie was found in the small dose. she had been suffocated using

a plastic bag. after a botched investigation detectives determined the murder had to have been inside the house. in fact any katie's mother melody and twelve year old brother thomas were inside. when the police arrived the military was hysterical while thomas seemed quite calm. cool when thomas's moya believes the police became fixated with his behavior which they judged as to come and convince them that thomas had killed his sister. we will give it up we will stand for europe the white europe the traditional europe for the free nations europe but. we should be

arresting all those terrorists in kiev and stood all of the presidential candidates the military junta the nazis who gave orders to kill their own people just because their culture and their views in different. ways what will slow those we have to live in peace with brothers we shouldn't fight each other one people will bring this. i wonder if we feel if you don't buy. a trailer i thought of. that but. i don't believe by any means that bush. cut out of the same cloth as his father who was totally powerful in control. in fact you may not be fully in charge.

the first thing that went wrong is that as soon as the police got to the house they decided thomas had committed this crime that was their first error and then everything they did after that just compounded the error. thomas was twelve years old at the time today he is nineteen. and the police pressure he confessed to everything and was sent to prison. the supremes. court would overturn the sentence two years later after the details of his interrogation were revealed. the video recording of the interview was appalling. the pictures caused the worst police scandal in the history of the state of arkansas.

it cost. us our life. and i mean listen to some of some of the stories. and i'm going to like it is your boy archie. well we're very intelligent. and the viral irony is you know that broken. there is no indication of a breaking. show your sister died and it was only two people in russia could kill. here. that you know my wife can be a book all right oh i don't like your shit ok the tone is set right from the start the police never question thomas about his movements all the facts but are relentless convinced of his guilt the basic era which should never happen during questioning so i was scared didn't know what was going on. didn't know what to do

just there things were so fast and we just sat there for hours. not know what was going to happen. just i was lost it's no longer an interrogation but a never ending series of accusations. that would leave a man all right why. well there are fewer. rick. after all i don't know i wouldn't want to know. i'll give it. if she had to. leave right. you know you did. well. i don't think. you can do i didn't. i do. feel like

a lot of. thomas will deny killing his sister thirty six times. they told me my mom and i complete trust my mother to protect me my sister had all to. so she couldn't have done it and the only way she could happen is if i had done it so i thought the police and tell me the truth so i just died and i don't remember doing it. but. so confused. can't take the pressure of.

the police to use the smallest details of the boy's life to further incriminate him . you're probably right here. keisha but my medication. if you got it you know. did you. start. all over the day but i really think that. you're going to feel yourself. and yourself you're going to hear it is. hard. like. most kids would have confessed to this crime a lot saner it's

a it's absolutely amazing that he was able to withstand their. badgering of him as long as he then. could hold. the constant harassment has a name the police call it quote cooking over a small fire the offices leave the room and leave thomas to stew on his own there's no need for physical pressure as the suspects imagination runs wild as to what would happen if he doesn't confess the tactic works inside the mind of the twelve year old kid. oh sure you can nerves sweat and cry and this is a motional right. confused by the accusations thomas begins to break down. while there i thought maybe i blacked out. because the cops i knew point the cop to the law and me.

nobody came. oh oh. well. after more than one house cross-examination the police have still been unable to make thomas confess so they turn on his mother melody. she's bipolar and hasn't taken her medicines for six months but the police focus their questions on getting her to point the finger of blame at her own son.

when we really know he hollered and he went he got on life after. i just screamed and then he went to get. i don't have another son he's coming home to have me kind out here you know i don't want to write. i don't remember but i don't think. i did it. ya know. you don't think. it was they didn't notice it was gone but as soon as my mother. who's there to help me but she betrayed me very much for of. just spring was threw me to the cops and said he did it. they're going their own. ways you know my car. went nowhere near.

as his mother condemns him thomas' interrogation continues this time off camera half for a while thomas finally says i'm hungry i haven't had anything to eat all day and then they turn off the tape and they take him in the other room for the next three and a half hours they interrogated thomas just like they had been doing on tape but now they were off they could do what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. turning into the room and he saw talking to me tell me that it was only me who could have that if i do not confess before he left he was going to give me the death penalty. so he left and i got scared i called him back in there and by then i realized no way i was going to leave without telling them i did it. to tell me if i just told them the

truth or what they wanted to hear i could go home so i gave them a story made and they said that enough so they added beats bits and pieces for me to add in my story to look fit what they wanted it to. and when i took them back on camera. off an hour later he's like an automaton that repeats everything the police have told him to confess. so i. turn off the t.v. . and

. off. next morning. he. shot scale. or essentially the national chief of police contacted me and asked me to contact thomas regarding his interview and they want to use it as an example of how not to interview a child and i think that's very telling. now after his admission the police leave

thomas on his own to confront his mother. he whispers in her ear that he didn't kill his sister before declaring his guilt out loud. i. i think it. was. then he consoled her.

to this day the investigation into the murder of young katie remains unresolved. the reason the questioning of thomas went so badly is that the police are still focusing on confessions rather than evidence. of the three hundred one prisoners on death row or serving life sentences in the united states that were later proved innocent about ninety had made full scum fissions during interrogations that had been wrongly conducted.

a series of a good basis try to clear the squares of people who are going to be good news for the like for the story taking everything they did. not make. the law oh well. my own life but. let's think this setting all times. these cases have to eat lots. sometimes for nothing. this season and it's still changing it's not just a view of the story you'll be shocked if you see a stage eight looking at each other but all the same. place.

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post only what really matters. to your facebook news feed. today's top stories and the week's hot headlines here on r.t. the number of casualties from the ukrainian government's military crackdown and grows fuelling unrest in several more cities in the region. meanwhile cave russia is to blame russia for the tragedy in odessa as the southern ukrainian city mourns dozens of anti-government activists killed in a deadly inferno in clashes with radical extremists. tortured to death by the state an american prisoner suffers a slope. painful execution as untested drugs are used for the lethal injection as reaganite a calls for a moratorium on capital punishment plus. we report from iraq where bloodshed and civilian deaths blight the country's first

general election since u.s. combat troops moved out a poll that shows no clear winner yet. i . know. it is expanding moscow you are watching r t international with me. that was started is from ukraine where a military crackdown on anti-government activists has been gathering pace this week and only seven people are now confirmed dead in a day of fighting for control of the city of tours are the hot bed of and i can be of on the resistance violence has also robbed of the cross other cities in the rest a region i just post in europe is a force. to developments here in southeastern ukraine where the news is unfolding fost and furious if we start with the town of crime atoll squishes around seventeen kilometers from where i am in savion they protest is all in control of the state

interest square but the rest of the town has now been taken over by the ukrainian army all the shops are closed and we know we receiving reports that some full factories have shut down this affects the employment of some sixty thousand people who are now without jobs didn't it's a region is a region where all public transport has been shut down what this means is that nobody can arrive here only from here using either the buses or the trains this is a weekend operation that took place it started on friday here in slavyansk it's affected kramatorsk it is fighting skids announcement that it will cry. down militarily against these and have protesters many of whom have taken up administration buildings in this part of the country in the city of new gun square now receiving reports of unrest photos to say that they are in control of the local military enlistment offices and that they're handing out weapons but in a very controlled and organized manner they say that they doing this to keep order

in the city overnight there was also an raced in the town of mario poll we were talking to people on the ground who said that the military had entered the town the empty key of protesters were inside the administration building and they were telling us that they were being given orders to evacuate the building or else the military was threatening that it would fire on them despite this there is media outlets who are reporting that there is no military operation in the city and that all of this on waste is instead merely being instigated by the protesters but we did speak to people on the ground and this is what they told us. that i'm in the center of the sitting there a lot of ambulances outside the local administration building gunfire is being heard armored vehicles have entered the city and are moving towards the center people are going there is well to prevent the soldiers from shooting we're hoping they won't shoot at civilians though from what we've seen before we're not sure any

more. armored vehicles started entering the city then the fire erupted mercenaries or the ukrainian national guard opened fire emina people's heads there's no fatalities so far but i can't say anything about the number of injured right now police have returned from the scene but people in dark uniforms can be seen in other parts of the city kid has announced that this military operation is happening and starting here in the dinette squeege and but that it it will then instigate similar operations in other regions here in ukraine so certainly the showdown for further violence and clashes is being created. well arty's bolus leader is closely watching the situation in the region updating you on all the latest via her twitter feed and in her latest post she says shooting seems to have resumed near slavyansk so you can follow her to keep up with events there.

the authorities in kiev insist the military operation in eastern ukraine is aimed against what they call terrorists holding the civilian population hostage well here's how some of those civilians greeted the army's arrival. i. was this was filmed in the town of come a tourist but similar scenes are taking place across the whole region in slavyansk for example locals were seen trying to stop military vehicles with their bare hands . the east has been tense for a while now but a tragedy that took place in previously peaceful southern port of adesa censure shock waves worldwide doesn't burned alive on friday as a mob of radical nationalist fire bombed the building they took refuge in refinish

in a sense this report from a desk and you will find some of the pictures they are disturbing the adesa massacre as some called a neat. people were burned alive suffocated to death or shot and killed this has become one of the bloodiest pages in the city's history since world war two. the chain of events that led to dozens of das started with what has become an increased new reality. clashes between police and the country's current trainers ordinary residents and members of the so-called self-defense units and supporters who intend to continue including food and choice and five members. of the bears that usually these clashes were peaceful sites managed the green without violence but the first start up for the violence and people lost their composure they were ready to go to them. the end happened here in addresses trade unions

house the epicenter of trade tests by supporters of the plains federalization this is where the so-called my done at sophists rushton they were destroying and burning the activist towns many rent to hide inside a building that was meant to become a shelter it came only for dozens after the building was set on fire tonight because i keep telling the fan camps and blocked off all their heads to the building at the same time if there are more talk to us along with stun grenades into the windows this was nothing short of an execution mission where people were burnt alive ukraine's a source she's for the first time since the crisis in the country started accused russia of being behind the violent events more were more and more we demand that russia stop using terrorism diversion and is a military threat as a way of putting pressure on our countries cause a little bit even within the russian president is dressing up his diversion squads in uniforms which cannot be identified because he wants to destabilize our country

but in a desa not all the residents agreed. they brought in the fuel cells from the heart and right sector i want to remind. you will loopholes and adventures i didn't know anything about they were all drinking and celebrating labor. and police who wanted not to interfere between us but if you wish to obey god it was until our local police was trying to read them so i doubt there was a way to. take. a joke trade knowing that the waters here in that town are relieved friday's events that claimed the lives of a least forty people have shaking this usually only about sixteen southern ukraine and many fear that it has made the gap between the people and the sororities to be at the breached while the pain will be too strong to overcome.

from a desk. and happening now in a around a thousand people have gathered near the police headquarters the manning the release of those who were detained after surviving friday's fire and the authorities are letting some of the anti-government activists go that's after the crowd attempted to storm the building the crowd outside which is growing larger the spine the rain is greeting the released activist with applause you can get always more obviates from adesa via our twitter feed which is r.t. underscore com. a state execution went horribly wrong this week in the u.s. a prisoner spanned almost an hour enduring

a slow agonizing death after being given a lethal injection the botched killing has put america's death penalty back on trial. and inmates are supposed to die within six minutes after receiving a lethal injection but that was the case for clayton lockett he took forty three minutes to die gasping and writhing in pain before his heart finally collapsed ramp or not has been looking into the untested drugs now being used to kill the can down . america is among the top five nations that lead the world in executions but a recent lethal injection gone bad the typical execution should take between about six and twelve minutes forty three minutes a van burst lines were closed because something was going so wrong is casting a spotlight on the inhumane methods behind capital punishment in the u.s. the american public and the world is getting a close up and personal look at the death penalty as it really operates and what we're seeing is ugly on tuesday oklahoma inmate clinton lockett died

a slow and painful death after his lethal injection was administered witnesses say he was with the ring for forty three minutes telling doctors something's wrong before eventually suffering a massive heart attack lockett began rising from the gurney it's. a port authority tried to speak to him like well the first two or inaudible but the earth where you could clearly hear him get a work. permit and it's based on the murder on part of it on the body shattered. according to reports the three drugs used to kill lockett are not primarily intended as execution drugs and come with a host of warnings about suppressing the respiratory system and causing heart trouble in recent years drug makers mostly in europe have stopped selling their medications to u.s. prisons because they don't want their products being used to kill individuals and as a result states have scrambled to find new suppliers and chemical recipes for executions

in many cases officials refuse to disclose what strokes are being used and where they're coming from when the states are refusing to provide this kind of information the tragic results that we saw in oklahoma are what we're going to get in january and ohio inmate took twenty five minutes to die by injection gasping repeatedly as he laid on the stretcher in oklahoma another prisoner complained of feeling his whole body burning after being lethally injected the injections by the way are being administered by prison officials not medical professionals and medical community doctors in particular are prohibited by their ethical oath from participating in executions in this way and one of the issues that's come up over and over again is whether the people who are actually administering the drugs that engage in the execution have the training and and experience to do this in

a way that is consistent with our constitution oklahoma has granted a two we call to all executions but in many other states critics say experiments on death row inmates will carry on marina porton iowa. new york. well let's now take a look at how capital punishment is administered across the united states it's allowed in thirty two states at the moment usually the lethal injection or electrocution are used but are their options include guest chamber a firing squad or even hanging but why the biggest concerns for prison campaigners is that one in twenty five executed inmates could well have been innocent and they want the authorities to be more transparent about who and how they kill there's no question that bad things are happening or resulting from the use of these new and largely untested drugs that the government is not providing information on where they got them or in some cases what the drugs are the state purports that it is

executing people on behalf of the public to keep the public safe as part of the the public criminal justice system and so on if that's the case then the public has a right to know what is going on during that process so what drugs they're using and what the effects of those drugs are and where those drugs came from the notion that our government can execute people basically in secret using drugs that they're not disclosing where they got them from or what the drugs are is a great immoral issue preelection violence in iraq and a look at why washington has bones to pick with our teeth that more after the break . i wonder if we still if you don't buy. a trailer i thought as to. get put. off because i don't believe by any means but.

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welcome back you're watching artier national ballot counting is under way in iraq after this week's parliamentary election with initial results showing no party securing only need the vote didn't pass peacefully at least one hundred fifty people were killed as extremist groups carried out a series of nationwide bombings looks at whether this poll coded in any way herald a peaceful new chapter for iraq it's an election best described by the numbers. more than one thousand candidates are vying for over three hundred seats in parliament which will then let's the next president and prime minister some twenty one million iraqis are just there to vote in the first national election since the looked to all of us troops three years ago. but there are other figures to consider the growing number of iraqis killed in escalating violence and those displaced by war no single political bloc is likely to win

a majority although prime minister nouri al maliki's state of law lines is expected to lead he's seeking a third term but it's hard to label the past few years a success as a country was sixteen percent unemployment widespread accusations of political corruption and crumbling public services but the real concern catastrophic levels of violence that got worse in the run up to the vote campaign rallies targeted by suicide bombers both sunni and shia militias have been out for blood. voting has been canceled in parts of western iraq the u.s. led invasion brought shiite majority rule to the country which had turned the anbar province into a focal point of sunni discontent when i was in fallujah at this time last year the province was in the midst of a political uprising and. the demonstrators had been demanding the release of sunni prisoners they wanted an end to what they saw. political marginalization of their

sect these days it's a no go area. al qaeda linked group seize control of key cities provoking fierce clashes with iraqi troops the government hasn't been able to restore order and atrocities committed by both molecules forces and the militants displaced a third of the population more than four hundred thousand civilians are now refugees within their own country it's hard to see a new path forward under the same government yet the opposition is too fractured to mount a serious challenge and regardless of who wins the vote is just the start of a long process it took months to agree on a coalition after the last election the same is expected this time around which means that iraq will have to wait even longer for the change it so desperately needs to see catherine of r.t. . now around two hundred people are killed in iraq every week as a result of sectarian violence since the beginning of a year four thousand people have lost their lives in the violence and after the

grim tally of twenty third teen considered to be the deadliest year five years almost of thousand were killed in iraq war veteran a peace activist michael prisoner says the killings are you legacy of the u.s. military campaign and iraq. iraq had gone through this transition to a perfect peaceful and united government they would still be faced with a very very difficult legacy the complete destruction of the country's infrastructure the toxic legacy of the pleated uranium and things like that but a rock cannot even begin to face those problems because their lives are still dominated by the violence of the war and the sectarian violence and all the strafe we see today is a direct result of the u.s. occupation if the u.s. military didn't go to war against an enemy army the us military went to war against a broad based national uprising against an occupation and so to fight it it had to exploit all of the ethnic and religious divisions they could find fuel them with

violence and today we're seeing the aftermath of now the u.k. police get a slap on the wrist for brushing a large number of criminal cases under the carpet a recent survey suggests as many as one in five crimes in britain go unrecorded all the details of this investigation are just a click away. and the u.s. spreads its influence further across the pacific striking a deal for access to military bases in the philippines find out why. a court in cairo sentenced one hundred two supporters of the ousted president morsi to ten years in jail they were accused of inciting violence and rioting following the military coup last july the ruling comes as part of a massive crackdown against the opposition launched by the military supported government i have of this month's presidential election. well earlier this week nearly seven hundred people many from pro morsi muslim brotherhood were given

preliminary death sentences and the file is a file verdict in firms that ruling it would herald one of the world's biggest executions of recent decades more of them that number can damned to death in iran during an entire year among the countries having a list of states having our capital punishment our iraq saudi arabia and the united states china doesn't publish official numbers but amnesty international says beijing executes thousands of people each year and asked for the mass sentencing had it out in egypt political activists are meant to keep says it's unlikely to quell the end rest easy for the preliminary sentence to be so harsh because it politically serves as an intimidation tactic by the state towards the muslim brotherhood now this definitely has not deterred the muslim brotherhood from continue its never would become egypt's next president would be faced with an. impossible economic situation the political continues political unrest economy will

continue to suffer a major blows and the president cannot deliver economic services to the society which inevitably will continue this cycle of under arrest them violence. now the latest round of infighting between rebels in eastern syria has killed sixty two that's according to a u.k. based watchdog sixty six thousand civilians have reportedly fled the war ravaged area moderate rebels and islamic insurgents there have been fighting each other for months after capturing the region from government troops. and more unrest in yemen were officially say at least thirty seven or qaeda militants have been killed in having clashes with the army in the rest of south a suicide bomber also struck in the same region leaving six soldiers dead and wounding dozens more earlier this week cameron launched a scale offensive to eliminate al qaida militants have repeatedly targeted civilians and security forces in the area. close in the canyon city of

mumbai to have killed three people and injured seven one of the blasts was a grenade attack on a bus stop while a second device went off near a hotel entrance no group has claimed responsibility for the attack in may two thousand and four hundred took its biggest single enlargement absorbing a vast area of the continent east going since though has been tough with its tyranny recession and unemployment all playing their parts so was it worth it or the reports of what the people think. wild parties rocked ten european capitals in may the first two thousand and four as the e.u. became larger by ten countries for some of the new members like cyprus and malta this move had a purely economic motivations while for the rest mostly former socialist bloc states this was the chance to make a clean break from the communist past now a decade on these countries are looking at whether the e.u.

accession really brought them joy poland is probably one of the happiest members of the e.u. to join in two thousand and four new road striking export figures and relatively intact from recession mainly because analysts say war so kept its currency instead of euro and even a clear downside from e.u. membership the population after millions of skilled balls left to western europe ones borders became obsolete is not a deterrent still more than sixty seven percent of poles are happy to be part of the union the situation is slightly different in the czech republic later s'pore suggest that thirty seven percent are not in favor of being part of the e.u. family way thirty five percent supporting it the rest are undecided this may be down to the czechs feeling better living standards have not come as fast as they wanted them to come and sometimes they also made their feelings known during the protests when washington was planning to place an anti-missile shield on their

territory in opinion you can often hear in the czech republic is that they do not like brussels bureaucracy and being told what to do over the past five years hungary has been one of the most vocal critics of the european union particularly its freshly reelected prime minister viktor orban there have even been suggestions voiced in budapest hungary could hold a referendum on exiting the union the reasons for such skepticism lie within the economy that well for two thousand and four the cheap goods flooded the market traditionally an agricultural powerhouse and many farmers lost their markets and means to survive. that happen is that their country being forced to pay for the economic. the e.u. member states speaking of which one of the ten new comers to the e.u. in two thousand and four cyprus is probably the least happy these are quite selling pictures from last year when the island suffered economic collapse and tens of thousands protested against the bailout plan which almost completely crippled the

country's banking system a year on the island's economy is slowly recovering but the anger of losing a lot more money has not subsided among cypriots the two thousand and four accepted e.u. members are split about their decade within the family of twenty eight states not all of them have perfect ties with brussels but ten years after the e.u. accepted stand new states in one swipe it's now a lot more careful when it comes to enlargement and nationality worlds apart. the american humanist association is really riled up over that one very famous chunk of the pledge of allegiance that was added to fight the communists in the cold war that says that america is one nation under god they claim that the inclusion of god in the pledge makes it seem like atheists of america are second

class patriots and contributes to an atheist prejudices well this really depends on how you see the united states is it some sort of neutral ground where anyone with any beliefs can go i mean a lot of people did immigrate to the usa for religious freedom so in this case the word god needs to go or is the state's unique culture that needs to be assimilated into and their culture is ultimately price and christian in which case the lord almighty must stay in the pledge i doubt that this philosophical argument about the nature of the united states will be solved any time soon although it would be really great if it was but if we think about it the u.s. is a country of rugged individuals so can't patriotism be a bit individual istic yeah they may make you say the pledge of allegiance in school every day but you don't have to say the part about god if you don't want to well that might not save you from pressure from a religious school mates but it will keep your conscience clean before the eyes of god or not god whichever you prefer but that's just my opinion.

right. now i. want if the couple of guys. hello and welcome to worlds apart the twentieth century went down in history as a new year of political giants who almost singlehandedly it seems determined the face of that country's in both positive and negative place and while the march of

democracy around the world is supposed to make politics last dependent on the whims of individual leaders why is politics still so havoline personified while to discuss that i'm now joined by jerrold post director of the political psychology program at george washington university dr post thank you very much for taking time to join this program i really appreciate that my pleasure now i know that before joining the academia you spent almost two decades with the cia where you were founded and directed a center that's was essentially responsible for compiling psychological profiles of various foreign leaders i wonder how prominent d.c. in those profiles were in influencing the course of american foreign policy at times that are extremely useful at other times the national interests and the nation as a rational national after takes dominance but particularly when there's

a leader dominant society that's one personality profile. of extreme importance such as was the case during the war with the with saddam hussein now i know that when you started all the way back and the and nine hundred seventy seven and i'm not mistaken i soon that they had the sources that you had access to were pretty limited you know some rare television interviews maybe some media reports probably some diplomatic a. but nowadays we know that. american intelligence agencies have almost unlimited access to all sorts of sources the n.s.a. can even listen to the phone calls of foreign leaders and has direct access to the e-mail accounts this is as close as you can get to direct observation i wonder if it made the job of political profilers easier or on the contrary more difficult because of all these abandoned self information and the second question would that

also make those profiles more accurate that's a complicated question you're asking really there's almost an information overload is what you're implying and for the most part these detail that observations are much less important from the perspective of the method i use of political personality profile than trying to understand the leader in the context of his life what were the forces that shaped this individual because one can have a very similar surface appearance but the leader may get there in a very different fashion depending on who is models the nature of his progress through i don't lessons and young adulthood these are all crucial and that's what we have to map out what shaped this man but on the other hand when you have. an opportunity to see how he or she reacts directly to any political

challenge for example in the case with angela merkel these days if you know if you can observe her directly over the period of eight years wouldn't that be more important than what really shaped her by and large what we're trying to understand is what are the emotional levers what are the buttons that push this person to what degree is this person under full rational control to or to agree is this person scarred by painful experiences may i. even example with saddam hussein absolutely go have i assessed him from my base at george washington university and one of the things i was very distressed by was that he was being called the madman of the middle east and i was really couldn't quite concerned that this mr gnosis from my point of view was going to lead to really flawed decision making because he was a rational political co-curator who often miscalculated for two reasons one he

had a very ethnocentric view of the world didn't really understand the west but more importantly he was surrounded by a group of sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear rather than what he needed to hear so it's very important in looking at a leader not to look at the leader as if he is running the country but he is has a group of advisors a group of cabinet unofficial advisers it is the picture of the world that comes to him through them that's crucial and that's how he executes is policies and one of the things we learned with saddam was that he was consumed with his own grandiosity but underneath that he was extremely in secure if i could pick up on the point that you just mentioned him having these vision of himself as one of the world's greatest leaders and i think in that profile that you mentioned which was

written back in december of ninety ninety you mentioned that probably he's kuwaiti adventure was you know a step towards achieving that goal you know putting himself onto the international stage and what we now know from the diplomatic cables is that he really try to sort of task the waters with their merican officials and what he got from them is that they sensually told him that they're not going to intervene and some speculated that that. as an interactive encouragement of his action i wonder if that is one of the goals of political profiling not only understanding whether the leader is coming from but also influencing and many people waiting his actions because you can argue that in sort of leaving saddam hussein to act on his ambition of becoming this next great arab leader that american officials got a pretext for attacking iraq later on militarily well the question of.

put aside the question of a pretext for attacking iraq that. had a very expansionistic view of himself but was prudent nevertheless and would not make any decisions that would. endanger him and had there been a clear day marsh at that time we cannot tell but one thing is certain for all those years he had seen him self as a powerful world leader but the world had for the most part ignored him until july of nine hundred ninety and it was when he invaded kuwait that suddenly his name was on every broadcast his picture was emblazoned in the newspapers this with this was clearly a powerful world leaders so i i see this in my psychiatrist terms as almost an explosion of narcissism at last the world was seeing him for the powerful leader he

was he gave a guttural grunt and the stock market would drop two hundred points so that so that this was part of what i was trying to communicate when i testified before congress about him that this man would not easily reversible so that dr post isn't it the case that both you and you know decision makers in washington knew about his violent tendencies beforehand i mean in your own profile you give many be. no examples of very harsh treatment of his own associates the supposedly the decision makers in washington learned about this tendency is not only on the eve of that war but probably during those times when they were assisting saddam hussein's regime in the iran iraq war so my question is really whether those. destructive tendencies could be seen not only as a danger to the country say national security but also as a as an opportunity to explore it and if so whether your profiles of those foreign

leaders came with any specific recommendation of how to pull their strings essentially well again i was not with the government when i did this profile and part of what i emphasized in my profile was that he could withdraw but only under two conditions a he could see save face and be if he could preserve his power and in the event neither one was really possible in fact he believed that the united states suffered from a viet nam complex and should it get to the point where there were american body bags being sent home again as they were in the vietnam war this would lead to a political protest and an impasse and he would have shown his courage by standing up to the united states superpower and now when i was reading some of those

profiles that both your road and some other researchers road what struck me is that . if they seem to essentially start with a conclusion many of the profiles of hostile leaders were hostile in nature while the profiles of american leaders for example the profile of. george bush sr reach was done by david winter of the university of michigan it was fairly positive and george bush sr was described as quote ep. peacemaker concern for development not prone to seek political answer through violence or war i think in hindsight meaning i would challenge the accuracy of that description but my question is how the pound and profilers would be on the existing political realities do you have to take into account the specifics of american foreign policy essentially what i'm asking is whether you have to start with a conclusion that this or that man is an enemy of the united states and how would that influence the accuracy of your work than one certainly does not have to begin

with such a conclusion no one is directing me as to what to conclusions. to have. is the best view that of that leader that our own leadership is trying to understand that's that's an erroneous misconception you mentioned in the beginning of the program that these political profiles are most important in place so for our leaders who dominate our societies but if we look at establish democracy isn't for example the american democracy there were a number of leaders who are committed morally questionable things for example richard nixon to have his watergate engagement on his deliberate efforts to prolong the vietnam war i wonder if there was ever an attempt on the part of cia or any other our organization in the united states as far as you know to profile potential political candidates to see if there are you know personality traits make them fit

for presidency i don't know. and. most all of my efforts have been devoted to profiling. foreign leaders and as i indicated to you i did not wish to comment on american politics or policies but do you think something like that would be how cool is this because i mean and nowadays it's a it's pretty commonplace in many fields to subject people to psychological profiling before hiring them do you think that would be how far in general for. the highest both in the country i'm sure there is active. research during the during political campaigns and that's a that's a pretty. brutal contest in and of itself which it was shows the warts spinny said that political well this is a very politically correct answer we have to take a short break now but when we come back president assad of syria has long been relegated to the class of truth less bloody dictator is on par with saddam hussein

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welcome back to worlds apart where we are discussing political psychology with one of the foremost experts in the field dr jerrold post dr post i would like to turn our attention to another leader whom you profiled in the past and who used to have almost unlimited power in his country and this is more market alfie and get out if he has long been portrayed have long been portrayed in the western media as sort of a lunatic a person who is out of his mind but particularly during the build up to the syrian rather libyan revolution he was really a trade to somebody who totally lost his marbles i mean deranged leader who was sad and exterminating his country but in your profile of him back in march of two thoughts at two thousand and eleven you wrote that he was a rational leader who was under pressure but rushnell nonetheless i wonder why did

you reach that conclusion well i would see him as having many circumstances where he was. reasoning perfectly appropriately but there were circumstances when he could become distorted in his viewpoint and exaggerated in his decision making and there are basically two circumstance. says when he was not fully rational a when he was succeeding and he could get heady with success and get carried away and be when he was failing that may not seem like it leaves much territory but it does. so when he was being ignored he could be counted upon to create a crisis one point he talked about the line of death around libya

and challenge the united states which was having maneuvers in the gulf of sidra to cross that line which we did they send up three sorties which were promptly shot down and he thanked the united states for making him a hero to the third world he was highly identified with the underdog and and was supported terrorist groups around the world because they were seen as representing. the underdog what was really important to understand during the crisis as it mounted was that he had identified himself totally with the country of libya so that the notion that he would go off to a happy exile someplace it was not to be and that was really important to convey he said and he meant it that he would go down to the last drop of his blood which made it very important that his generals the ministers working in

his government. not be identified with him going to create splits between them. to offer them a safe safe landing and at the end he was almost totally isolated. from other forces defected to the opposition and that was really quite important to understand that but dr post i think an interesting fact about that afterward. was that i know that from my personal experience because i was on the ground in libya back in february and march of two thousand and eleven and i know that up until his ouster his government was paying salaries to police officers to doctors to teach very same been guys have been gaza that was already overtaken by protesters and they even took special measures. provides residents have been gazi with antiretroviral drugs reach doesn't really is credited for me with this portrayal of him as

a ruthless lunatic i wouldn't see him as a ruthless lunatic i mentioned use a borderline person personality who is usually above the border but could have exaggerated decision making when he was either happy with success or when he was failing and under grass of pressure that's when his decision making became distorted and now i think there is some commonality in the way these. authoritarian leaders are perpetrated in the west and specifically by american policy makers and they're usually portrayed as you know these madman the cruel irrational are you sad are aware that saddam hussein was called the madman moammar gadhafi was called nicknamed the mad dog of the east i think there are signs of that in the portrayal in western patrol of bashar al assad as well why do you thing . this pattern keeps occurring my own theory is that if you for trade the vans and

those lies it's easier to justify the quick and speedy intervention but i guess you would have a different take on that well some of these leaders are ruthless dictators every one of these leaders needs to be understood accurately in his own cultural historical and political context and that explains a great deal of their behavior why did this society choose this particular view. at this point in historical time in many ways the leader is the creation of his followers and it's a mistake to just think of the leader as an isolated individual controlling a country he he he governs the country often with the consent of the governed sometimes as a dictator but but but more often there are many enthusiastic followers i think this is a very interesting point and one thing that all those three leaders that we just mentioned had in common saddam hussein moammar gadhafi and bashar al assad all

three of them still to portray themselves as really standing up to american pressure american dominance and this may have been a reason for them getting in trouble with the united states in the first place but both hussein and gadhafi are now gone but the antenna merican sentiment that they exploited is still very much present and it is now be used by a different force religious extremists and i would like to ask you from a psychological perspective when those tyrants those. very brutal leaders were and they still a bit more predictable a bit more rational probably a bit more manageable than the wild force that came to replace them. sometimes indeed that is that is correct but i think it's important to make the

following observation man is an enemy making species. we are really taught from childhood on who are our friends who are enemies and whom to trust and whom to fear and especially at times of economic and social dislocation in transition hate mongering leaders can mobilize their followers ship to. believe that it is the outside anime that is responsible for. there are problems and it has played very well historically if there was able to do that stalin was able to do that. well i think the sinister leaders were able to do that as well you know in fairness of course. and if one looked at the speeches of saddam hussein. and george h.w. bush during the first go through war the only thing that differed was the subjects

and the objects god was on our side. of opponents was identified with the devil we were the great satan. to saddam hussein so this is deep within human psychology and the need is to transcend that issue i would like to transition to yet another leader and this is president bashar al assad of syria i know that he recently parra published an article in which he tried to analyze some of his. eternal motives and i think he tends to be lumped together with other dictators arab dictators like saddam hussein more market a few but i think one thing that distinguishes him from them as you pointed out as well is he's a bring both saddam hussein and more market out if you had very humble beginnings they were probably abused as children and that to some extent may have contributed to the our insatiable appetite for power but assad had

a very different biography he came from a privileged background he wasn't groomed for power and you called him in the end you're our circle a second choice son i wonder if we still if you still buy these patrol of assad as ruthless murderer the butcher all of us how would this bringing explain his violence your viewers might be interested to know. john f. kennedy the former president. states bibi netanyahu the prime minister of israel and bashar al assad all have one feature in common they were all second choice sons they each had a horowitz older brother who was the apple of their father's eye and each of them were forced to succeed the older brother as they play as the political leader and four for assad he was a physician. training in ophthalmology when his brother died in an accident and he

was summoned home to lead so i don't believe by any means that bashar assad is cut of the same cloth as his father who was totally powerful in control later in fact one can make a case as my co-author with the purchase and i did he may not be fully in charge he his family is looking over his shoulder the military is looking over his shoulder and his younger brother my hair is much more in his father's mode is in charge of security. the problem is he cannot really leave much as he might like to or it would mean the end of the b. of the assad regime occurring on his watch and part of what his challenge is is. to try to find

a way out of this conundrum but this is not like libya there's a large base of loyal syrian military and we have a long ways to go in this struggle and there's no easy answer but dr post you mentioned it earlier about saddam hussein and one market after and i think we also can see that they now a declassified political profile of idol hitler all those lead. sirius has a very strong self identification of a back country. there was this famous quote saddam is iraq iraq is saddam but when you look at bashar al assad he always makes a point about stressing the limits of his authority he always stresses in his interviews that he doesn't own the country and yet. these patrol of him as these to randy collegiate or who controls everything in syria is very persistent it seems

that the american policy makers and the western media in general a very bent on presenting him as a tyrant no matter what. i don't see him in the manner in which you're characterizing him and i wouldn't touch as to who have people generically in the west in fact as i pointed out in that paragraph and as you emphasized and especially very interesting barbara walters interview he says i don't own the government i'm just the president and i infer from that that he's not fully in charge of the military as well so i don't see him at all as being similar to saddam hussein or or could i think he's does not really have the skills or personality to be a totalitarian dictator and yet he's trying to hold on to the country to achieve

the sure the feels a sense of commitment and it's a very difficult dilemma for him but isn't that then a part of psychological warfare that some of the western countries or maybe western media waging because all we heard about a shot of assad and obviously he has many faults as a leader but putting that aside all we heard about him over the past few years is how ruthless here really is while in fact any leader in his position would probably react and behave if not in the same but in similar ways what i've tried to do my own analysis is to have a differentiated. personality assessment so we don't fall into the kind of caricature is which you are attributing to western leaders i do not see him in the manner in which you characterize see him as trying to control the system that is not fully under his control not wanting to give up the assad regime

on his watch but by no means being a totalitarian dictator having said that there's no shortage of brutality on both sides. so in this contest and that's part of the zero on that's why they said they agree dr post thank you very much for your time and your perspective and if you like to show please join us again same place same time here on worlds apart. the try to. people. want to thank you.

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